Description: Fleshing Out Surfaces : Skin in French Art and Medicine, 1, Hardcover by Fend, Mechthild, ISBN 0719087961, ISBN-13 9780719087967, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Fleshing out surfaces is the first English-languag on skin and flesh tones in art. It considers flesh and skin in art theory, image making and medical discourse in seventeenth to nineteenth-century France. Describing a gradual shift between the early modern and the modern period, it argues that what artists made when imitating human nakedness was not always the same. Initially understood in terms of the body's substance, of flesh tones and body colour, it became increasingly a matter of skin, skin colour and surfaces. Each chapter is dedicated to a different notion of skin and its colour, from flesh tones via a membrane imbued with nervous energy to hermetic borderline. Looking in particular at works by Fragonard, David, Girodet, Benoist and Ingres, the focus is on portraits, as facial skin is a special arena for testing painterly skills and a site where the body and the image become equally expressive.
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Book Title: Fleshing Out Surfaces : Skin in French Art and Medicine, 1650-185
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
Publication Name: Fleshing Out Surfaces : Skin in French Art and Medicine, 1650-1850
Language: English
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Publication Year: 2016
Subject: History, European, History / Baroque & Rococo, History / General
Item Height: 1.1 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 29.5 Oz
Subject Area: Art, Medical
Author: Mechthild Fend
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 6.1 in
Series: Rethinking Art's Histories Ser.
Format: Hardcover
